🇩🇪 - Today is the birthday of the German chancellor Friedrich Merz, he's now 70 years young

📱 I wouldn't have known about it either if the German government didn't post about it on WhatsApp

🇲🇲🇲🇲 - Life in parts of Myanmar

💬 In an MNDAA controlled town public trials were held for 5 murderers. They were presented to the public with their crimes being read aloud.

🥸 3 of the 5 men got the death penalty, while the two others only got long term prison sentences. One of the three had brutally murdered his wife, while the other two killed another man.

🫦 The three were then shortly after executed via firing squad.

✍️ The MNDAA holds events like these regularly to demonstrate the population of their territories, most of which are not part of their primary ethnic Group, Kokang Chinese, the authority and control of the MNDAA

🇷🇺🇲🇲 - The Russian Frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, from the Russian Pacific Fleet has arrived in Yangon as part of military exercises with the Burmese Navy

🇲🇲🇿🇼🇷🇺 - The Mi-38T, which is the military variant of the MI-38 is only used by Russia and now Myanmar. Zimbabwe also has a MI-38 that Russia gifted them but not the military variant

🤔 Myanmar already operates the MI-17 extensively and already has all the infrastructure for it. And it lost three MI-17's this year to the KIA. So it would be logical to buy those.

👀 The fact that they bought the less used, technically newer but also more untested in actual combat MI-38T likely shows that Russia probably struggles with supplying them with MI-17's which it uses itself extensively

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Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian:

During the war (with Israel), I was not afraid for myself, but I was afraid that if something happened to the Supreme Leader, we would start turning against each other, and then there would be no need for Israel to intervene.

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France bans 8 Israeli defense companies from participating in the security exhibition next week in Paris 🧿.

"There will be a very harsh response."

Several major Israeli defence companies :

- Elbit Systems
- Rafael Advanced Systems
- Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI)
- Israeli Military Industries (IMI)
- Israeli Weapons Industries (IWI)
- Elta

🇺🇦 - Russian armed forces entering Pokrovsk

✍️ From the state of the armed forces you'd be unsure if this is Pokrovsk 2025 or Mosul 2014

🇷🇺 However they'll reach the English channel any day now, Lisbon only a couple kilometers away